M2M does not only apply to exotic applications like environmental monitoring, precision farming, and supply chain automation. It is also starting to improve basic routine tasks. I have mentioned in my book, The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution (http://www.whartonsp.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=013700379X) an example of the mousetraps in Wembley Stadium being by Rentokil (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07129/784423-294.stm) connected via a wireless sensor network to save the maintenance crew a trip until a mouse is in the trap (truly a killer app!). I recently read of an example of trash cans in Sommerville, Mass, are able to send an SMS message when they are full and ready to be picked up (http://www.wirelessweek.com/Articles/2009/12/Predictions-2010/ ). The fuel and labor savings potential of these types of simple M2M applications is tremendous. The limitations in the past have been economics and the lack of open standards (these two are highly related). With a range of options such as SMS, Zigbee, WiFi, WiMax, and cellular, price points are coming down and more applications are becoming viable. The deployment of LTE will only fuel this further by providing a true "wireless cloud" for distributed sensor networks to plug into. With the first LTE deployments happening last week in Sweden by Teliasonera and Norway by Netcom (http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=9008F793-1A64-6A71-CE885F8A2D4A8163 , the road is being paved for a new wave of M2M innovation and the Digital Swarm.
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